All of these goodies are available FOR FREE during the pre-order period, and will be delivered by email on or before March 8th. You’ll also get the game as a DRM-free download from the Wadjet Eye Games website, or a Steam key.

Looking forward to this but as Mac users we tend to miss out on the pre-order promo stuff (I could pre-order in the hope that it will be ported at some point).

I buy all WadjetEye games, pre-ordered and enjoyed Technobabylon but I have to be honest it was a real chore to get it run well. I used VMWare but ended up using PortingKit, both of which took my 2.6 i7 CPU up to 100% and saw my battery drain 10x faster, additionally there were weird speed issues (when playing the VR ball game in TB it was in slowmo).

It’d be good to hear about Mac plans regarding Shardlight and future releases.

Beautiful game!
I’m only in the beginning but am already highly impressed. Beautiful graphics; I’m really impressed by the effects of the light. Great character portraits. Beautiful music and fantastic voice acting!

Only the sounds playing at the same volume is a little drawback, like when Amy is commenting something and there’s a public address announcement or kids singing a song, it’s hard to understand what Amy is saying. Would’ve been nice if the surrounding sounds would’ve been muffled a little bit as long as Amy is speaking. But I guess that’s a limitation with the game engine.

Nonetheless, Shardlight is a fantastic, if not an outstanding adventure game and a great addition to the Wadjet Eye catalogue.

The game runs flawlessly on Linux, by the way. It can be played through asg or wine. It seems to perform better through wine, though.

out of interest, what’s best for indies like you? Purchasing your games via Steam/Gog etc. or directly from the shop here? I’d assume that third parties take their share, but if nobody would buy the games someplace else, you wouldn’t get the chance to get some exposure there, plus on occasion you might shift additionally copies from the many sales eventually that are then promoted, i.e. Steam’s “rubber chicken with a price tag in the middle massively massive Christmas sale” or something.